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Re: Verne (fwd)

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:07:18 +0200 (IST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
cc: bjava <sommer~at~smrn.com>

Another response, now from our James Keeline, which I think is of interest.

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:58:28 -0800
From: "James D. Keeline" <keeline~at~adnc.com>
To: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Verne (fwd)
Zvi Har'El wrote:
> 
> I have forwarded bjava Jean-Michel response, and he has some more questions....
> 
> Zvi.
> 
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> Dr. Zvi Har'El     mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il     Department of Mathematics
> +972-4-8294094(Phone)                Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
> +972-4-8324654(FAX)  http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/   Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
> ``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper (1942)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:53:55 -0800
> From: bjava <sommer~at~smrn.com>
> To: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: Verne (fwd)
> 
> Jean-Michel Margot wrote:
> It means that somebody took
> these two titles and asked a binder to bind them together. In french
> such bindings are called "reliures d'amateur" in opposition to the
> "reliures d'editeur" and of course such "reliures d'amateur" are
> more numerous as the "reliures d'editeur".
> ____________________________________________________________________
> 
> I don't understand why the "amateur" bindings would be more numerous
> than the publisher's printing. These were popular books and surely
> Hetzel took advantage of their popularity. This is a beautiful book,
> with a leather spine, gold inlay, marbled endpapers. It is more probable
> that "reliures d'amateur" were few in number. Hetzel's paper was not of
> the highest quality, so it seems unlikely that a discriminating
> collector would have spent money binding these books together. The
> binding looks more than a century old. In fact, inside the pages I found
> a silk ribbon with U.S. Grant's portrait on it and WELCOME 1879
> CALIFORNIA printed below it. It was either used as a bookmark or the
> owner put it in the book as a souvenir. If these books were put together
> by a reader, it was someone who loved them and had the money to spend on
> a higher quality binding than the paper.  deserved.
> 
> Thanks for your help.   BW
I believe that it was a common practice in France to issue books in a
temporary binding with the expectation that the buyer would have the
book bound by his favorite binder in a style consistent with his
library.
One reason why original bindings would be hard to find is the length of
time and the wear which can occur to them over that period of time.
Perhaps someone who spent the time to have a book custom bound would 
take special care of it and cause it to survive decades later.
It is very likely that the book you describe is a unique copy in terms
of the combination of these two titles, binding, and the bookmark.
James
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